Article: The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue with the Past.

The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue with the Past. By Russell M. Lawson. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. x + 173 pp. $55.00 cloth.

The subject of this rather dogged biography is usually remembered as author of The History of New Hampshire and as first corresponding secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He has often been characterized as a "rationalist" or "empirical" historian whose inquiring mind forged beyond Matherian traditions by eschewing speculation not based on concrete evidence (references cited on 150-51). Author Lawson confirms such designations within an eighteenth-century context, providing helpful ...

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